Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...features of this play distinguish it from those of preceding years. The first part consists of a debate between the prophets and a high priest concerning the possibilities of a virgin birth. There are several elaborate tableaux, lighted, and accompanied by music, with some chants sung in Latin...
...road of the emigrant?the struggling peasant family, the fiddling goatherd from the hills, the Colonel's daughter, the son of a small farmer and fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those...
...Manhattan. Rosa Ponselle, in the white draperies of a vestal virgin, was fervently wooed by Edward Johnson, U. S. tenor, disguised as a Roman soldier in the Metropolitan's revival of La Vestale, a totally unoriginal opera written 100 years ago by Gasparo Spontini. Critics agree that this composer understood one thing- how to write for the voice. For the rest he depended on Gluck and what he could remember of Mozart. Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular...
...such dependence on the parental dictum was not the product of a virgin mind. The man who toys each day with pet lions must receive the credit. Surely it is time for him to outrival the poetry of D'Annunxio with a treatise on eugenics. The glory that was Garibaldt learned a thing or two in Brooklyn. Let Italy now return her national debt in kind. Let the Duce take the flower of our American girlhood: Mr. Ziegfield has had his turn...
...population of He des Dames multiplies apace. With Phaon growing into a handsome youth, and in view of certain semi-authenticated episodes, Anni Prachtel and a few cynics remain dubious of the annual parthenogenesis. But they preserve the myth, and five years after the first crop of childen, the virgin mothers feel so self-sufficient that the disposal of male offsprings is an issue. Some are for Amazonian exposure on the mountains, some for the method that elevates voices and renders docile. Instead, compassion prevailing, an isolation colony, Manland, is formed under Phaon's governance; and here, while the maidens...